The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.

Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’

In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.

Whoa. That's bad

I don't understand the story personally. I thought flying the flag upside down was a well known symbol of distress. I marched to protest Trump in 2019 and someone was flying the American flag upside down on the march.

Waiting until Saturday on a long holiday weekend like it's still 1962 or something

Must maintain that access, no matter the cost!

But WaPo managers are also still mystified about the plunge in reader engagement...

Incredible that she freaked out and threw a tantrum when asked about the flag and the Post's reaction was apparently "nothing to see here"

I’m guessing there was just too much dirty politics going on pushing it to the bottom of the GOP heap, possibly by Ginni the insurrectionist and the orange baboon tweeting.

God almighty I cut WP, NYP, et al. a shit ton of slack but this is monumentally embarrassing.

Turns out making journalism accessible only to people from "upper middle class" backgrounds might have been a mistake

Rotten